Daf Yomi

Avodah Zara 72 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-29 "If I sell this field, I will sell it to you”. Is a stream considered a connection? The force of a non-Jew.

Avodah Zara 71 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-28 A non-Jew who pays a Jew’s taxes with yayin nesech. Does pulling an item result in an acquisition in transactions when a non-Jew? A non-Jew who steals a tiny amount of money.

Avodah Zara 70 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-27 Various cases where a non-Jew was found alone with a Jew’s wine. Giving a key to someone only implies that they will look after the key and not that they will enter the locked area. We are stricter about impurity than yayin nesech.

Avodah Zara 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-26 The role of "one part in sixty imparts taste ". How much time does an idolator need to access wine in a Jew’s barrel? The fear that the Jew will observe the non-Jew touching the wine. We do not leave wine barrels with a non-Jew nowadays because of the air hole.

Avodah Zara 68 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-25 Leaven of terumah and non-sanctified leaven which fell into a dough. Rabbi Shimon holds different prohibitions do not combine to forbid a mixture. A mouse which fell into beer.

Avodah Zara 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-24 Parameters of "noten ta'am lifgam": additional factors contributing to the detrimental flavor are not considered; an olive amount has to be eaten within a particular time. Most opinions say noten ta'am lifgam is permitted but there is a stringent opinion.

Avodah Zara 66 : Marc Chipkin : 202-08-23 Mixtures of similar kinds and mixtures of different kinds. The taste vs the name of the items in the mixture. The significance of smell.

Avodah Zara 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-22 Wages for transporting wine barrels where one contained yayin nesech. Yayin nesech which fell onto fruit. Selling forbidden food or shaatnez to a non-Jew, who may sell it to a Jew.

Avodah Zara 64 : Marc Chipkin :2025-08-21 A Jew who is hired to destroy yayin nesech. How do we treat money from selling an idol is in an idolator’s hands? Definition of a "ger toshav".

Avodah Zara 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-20 The status of an animal given in return for a woman's services. Paying employees through a storekeeper selling possibly forbidden produce.

Avodah Zara 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-19 Wages for working with yayin nesech are prohibited. Why is both burning as well as burying necessary? Borrowing shemittah produce and repaying with eighth-year produce.

Avodah Zara 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-18 When a non-Jew is afraid to touch the wine. Buying or renting a house in an idolator’s courtyard to store wine. Storing wine with a non-Jew who is not the owner.

Avodah Zara 60 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-17 A non-Jew carrying a closed flask or open jug of wine. Direct force vs indirect force. A non-Jew who directly touchs the wine, but unintentionally; where although he intended to touch it, he did so indirectly, and for a specific purpose.

Avodah Zara 59 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-16 Different communities and their behaviour. A non-Jew bringing grapes to the winepress. A non-Jew who used his hand to plug an opening in a barrel.

Avodah Zara 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-15 A non-Jew who puts his hand in the wine to prove it is wine- what is the status of that wine? A non-Jew who was mistakenly asked to pour wine for Sages. A non-Jew who dilutes wine.

Avodah Zara 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-13 When juice pressed from grapes is considered “wine” for "yayin nesech". Wine is considered finished and subject to maaser from when [the pits and peels] float to the surface, some time after descending into the pit. Nisuch is not done with a non-Jew's feet.

Avodah Zara 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-12 Howcome G-d allows idolatry in the world? Why idols may appear to “heal” people. Harvesting and treading grapes with a non-Jew or Jew who processes wine in tumah.

Avodah Zara 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-11 When an animal that one is forced to worship is prohibited. The three cardinal sins. A physical act of idolatry on someone else’s property can prohibit it.

Avodah Zara 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2925-08-10 Does selling an idol nullify it? A Jew stood up a brick to bow down to it, and an idol worshipper came and bowed to it. Idols which were abandoned.

Avodah Zara 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-09 Dispute if an idol becomes forbidden when it is made or worshipped. Utensils which were used for service in Chonyo’s Temple, may they be used in the Temple? Nullification of avodah zarah owned jointly by a Jew and idolator.

Avodah Zara 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-08 Breaking a stick in service of an idol. Slaughtering a blemished animal for avodah zarah. Finding coins, a garment, or utensils on top of Markilus they are permitted to benefit therefrom, because they were not placed there to decorate the idol.

Avodah Zara 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-07 Stones found in the area of Markilus. Markilus stones which were removed to pave streets. Applying fertilizer to a tree during shemittah vs during Chol HaMoed.

Avodah Zara 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-06 Permitted and forbidden causes combining to produce a result. Avoiding benefit from avodah zarah by throwing away its value. The shavings of an asheirah tree.

Avodah Zara 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-05 Three types of asheirah trees. The shade of an asheirah tree. Planting vegetables under an asheirah tree during the winter, when its shade harms the plants.

Avodah Zara 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2025-08-04 If one bows to a palm tree, can its branch be used for the mitzvah of lulav? Rebuilding a fallen wall shared by an idolatrous building. Three types of idolatrous houses regarding their nullification.